Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Satoshi Nakamoto’s original Bitcoin paper is recommended reading for anyone learning how MobileCoin works. With the introduction of the bitcoin whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, the world got its first taste of an peer-to-peer electronic payment system with decentralized governance. Satoshi’s vision for Bitcoin was “an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.”